Weekend crime includes 2 fatal shootings

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man who was found behind the Alto Sign Company in Southwest Philadelphia yesterday afternoon.

The man, who had not been identified, was found on South 70th Street near Kingsessing around 2:26 p.m.

He had a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to police.

Earlier yesterday, 17-year-old Azzim Dukes died after being shot once near the right eye on Snyder Avenue near 19th Street in South Philadelphia, police said.

Dukes, who lived on Montrose Street near 16th, was shot about 12:30 a.m. and pronounced dead at the scene shortly thereafter.

Police said Dukes was carrying a .380-caliber gun when he was found. They said the gunman came out of a black car driven by a woman and that the motive was related to an earlier argument.

Meanwhile, an arrest was made in the case of a man who was stabbed in the back in North Philadelphia Saturday night, but police declined to release details or a motive yesterday.

The 20-year-old victim was stabbed from behind on Warnock Street near Louden about 11 p.m. He was rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center where he remained in critical condition.

Four men who were injured in two double shootings over the weekend are faring a bit better with their medical conditions.

At 1:40 a.m. Saturday, a 23-year-old man was shot twice in the thigh and a 22-year-old man was shot once in the ankle outside Buffy's Corner bar on Somerset Avenue near 24th Street in North Philadelphia, according to police.

Both men were rushed to Temple University Hospital where they were listed in stable condition.

Also listed in stable condition yesterday were the victims of a another double shooting from Saturday night on 21st Street near Moore in the city's Point Breeze section.

In that case, a 22-year-old man who was shot in the back of the right arm was transferred to Methodist Hospital in stable condition and a 16-year-old boy who was shot in the back of the head was conscious, talking and stable at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, according to police.